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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (26259)	1/2/2004 1:25:31 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39344

People think they are getting editorial comment and news from newspapers, as that is what they are supposed to be all about. What they are about is selling advertising with incidental stories of wars, robberies ambulances and fires etc. just to get you interested. The Star survived as it concentrated on its classifieds for which it is known. Buy for adverts, find need, wrap fish or garbage. The star's classifieds are down 40% since 2003 because of the newgroups on the Internet. Most mainstream media gets the story all wrong anway. I was once involved in an incident that got national press coverage. A car flipped into a river and the people almost froze to death, but myself and another person found them walking on a deserted road 35 miles north of the highway in the winter. We drove them to a logging camp and they recuperated. It was about 25 below zero farenheit. They had 12 miles to go to get the logging camp and they would not have made it. I was interviewed by phone by only one paper, and only one got the story right in North America. All other media had names, details and everything else wrong. The tabloid "The Star" in the states reported it so well, that it reminded me of details I had forgotten. In the national newspapers it was so screwed up I could not recognize the incident. The Star, (not the Toronto Star, the coloured tabloid about Hollywood people)... go figure. Accuracy? You betcha. The Globe and Mail? Well let's just say it was a story that they had figured might have happened but didn't. Southam news only report things to harass people that certain politicians don't like and support the liberal government. The Star and the Globe support the middle of the road liberal outlook. There is no newspaper in Canada that tells it like it is. I once spoke to Peter Gzowski. I suggested to him that he interview a certain mining personality who was seminal to the great diamond hunt that was on in the NWT. I thought it interesting that there were 100,000 exploration people on a massive search for diamonds in Canada's north and there would be a couple of diamond mines found up there, and it would change Canada's economy and certainly the NWT's forever. Gzowski's comment was "nothing could interest me less" (He was from a mining town, Timmins, and mining was probably anathema to him) He was supposed to be the God of Canadian broadcasting and commentary etc.. Now I can understand his penchant for blind native guitar makers working from mud huts somewhere in Tanzania, certainly it's fascinating, but I think the talking heads are missing a certain broad human perspective that absorbs a great many of the population. Namely what the hell a lot of them are actually doing from time to time. What they want to do it seems, is shape our outlook by telling us what they think we should be interested in. So far the propaganda is working. The country's industry and achievement is shrinking and apathy is growing. EC<:-}